Gramps finished chewing and looked right at me. “He stays on the sidelines because he’s afraid of the game.” The whole table erupted in laughter and Rook and Little Dicky looked between me and Gramps. “Maybe some of us aren’t into games.” “Perhaps. Or they’re just afraid to play,” Gramps said before biting off half a piece of bacon and eating ridiculously slow as we waited for him to finish his thought. “But life is boring on the sidelines.”
